A lean, free-tier focused stack for building a continuous story engine and automated YouTube uploader.
You need to automate a daily video production cycle without upfront costs, specifically requiring a way to store 'yesterday's' plot points so today's story makes sense.
A fully functional automated pipeline that pulls story context from a database, generates a script, and uploads to YouTube daily at 8 AM.
Central repository for story arcs, character profiles, and daily script drafts.
Stores the 'state' of the story (previous events, character status) to ensure continuity.
Runs the cron job that triggers the video generation and YouTube upload at 8 AM.
Creating cartoon thumbnails and basic character templates.
Railway can securely connect to Neon via environment variables for seamless DB access.
This stack leverages generous free tiers to build a 'minimum viable automation.' It uses Neon for story state management and Railway for the execution of the daily 8 AM upload script.
